Word: pbh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help students initiate PBH courses in the Houses and in General Education. A consultant would be an advisor for student initiated courses, not an educational director...
Whitlock expects that an educational consultant will be chosen to take office by next fall, possibly sooner. A consultant will help PBH enrich its programs by informing volunteers of HArvard's untapped academic resources. As Whitlock said, "There has been a redefinition of PBH toward social action that demands a degree of professional skill. I think this trend can be enchanced by the University's support of its educational aspects...
...SECOND major issue that emerged from PBH's expansion and redirection in the 1960s is fundraising. In 1960 the operating expenses of PBH committees excluding overhead, totaled $2300. By 1965, the increase in the number of programs the start of summertime volunteer work and the introduction of professional consultants pushed PBH's operating expenses to $39,000. Expenses for this year will total $150,000. The skyrocketing of costs has challenged the previously inexperienced financial wits of PBH officers...
...PBH has traditionally obtained money from sources outside the University. It solicits funds from local foundations corporations such as the Boston Globel, individuals and government agencies (such as the Division of Youth Services of the Massachusetts Department of Educational 1968-69 was the first year for which these sources could not donate enough money to meet operating expenses. That year PBH asked the Faculty of Arts and Science to help cover its $32,000 deficit. Franklin Ford, them dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences agreed to give $20,000 to PBH but he gave no commitment for further...
...PBH's recent brush with financial disaster has forced it to quickly develop fund-raising expertise. A Friends Committee, chaired by William G. Saltonstall '28, was set up in 1968-69 to vigorously solicit donations from alumni. The Committee faild to reach ots unrealistically optimistic goal of $25,000 in alumni gifts that year. The amount fell way short of that figure, totaling only $10,000. Alumni donations have remained at this disappointingly low level ever since. Last year only 350 contributions were made by 8500 alumni who had been connected with PBH while in college. This year, the Friends...